From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mke2fs: document bigalloc and cluster-size
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:38:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F5BE57.1000305@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130115195741.GG17719@thunk.org>
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On 1/15/2013 2:57 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> So bigalloc is basically a hack because it was easier to make this
> change in the file system than it is to deal with block sizes
> greater than the page size.
If it is only to get around the mm pagesize limit, then why not just
have the fs automatically lie to the kernel about the block size and
shift the references back and forth on the fly when it detects a
larger blocksize?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-15 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-13 9:08 [PATCH 1/3] mke2fs: indicate bigalloc feature explicity when cluster-size is enabled Zheng Liu
2013-01-13 9:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] mke2fs: reduce the range of cluster-size Zheng Liu
2013-01-14 17:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-01-14 21:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-14 21:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-01-14 21:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 0:37 ` [PATCH 1/5] mke2fs: enforce that the cluster size must be less that the block size Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 0:37 ` [PATCH 2/5] mke2fs: the -g option will now specify the clusters per block group Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 15:10 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-01-15 19:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 15:22 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-15 0:37 ` [PATCH 3/5] libe2p: teach parse_num_blocks2() to return bytes if log_block_size < 0 Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 15:23 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-15 0:37 ` [PATCH 4/5] mke2fs: teach mke2fs to understand -b 4k and -C 256M Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 15:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-01-15 15:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-01-15 15:24 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-15 0:37 ` [PATCH 5/5] libext2fs: avoid 32-bit overflow in ext2fs_initialize with a 512M cluster size Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 15:33 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-15 15:36 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-15 19:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-16 1:49 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-15 0:41 ` [PATCH 1/5] mke2fs: enforce that the cluster size must be less that the block size Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 15:22 ` Zheng Liu
2013-01-13 9:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] mke2fs: document bigalloc and cluster-size Zheng Liu
2013-01-15 3:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 19:12 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 19:46 ` Phillip Susi
2013-01-15 19:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-15 20:38 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2013-01-15 22:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-14 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] mke2fs: indicate bigalloc feature explicity when cluster-size is enabled Theodore Ts'o
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